Thousand Quotes - Page 14

• It is better to be on hand with ten men than absent with ten thousand.

  Timur

  Men, Hands, Absent

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• Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Lying, Heart

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Works of John Ruskin”, p.109

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• There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Skills, Two, People

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• There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Play, People, Personality

  "How one Dazed journalist became Shia LaBeouf's pen-pal - and stared deep into the eyes of the metamodernist movie star". Interview with Aimee Cliff, www.dazeddigital.com. November 27, 2014.

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• The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.

  Noam Chomsky

  Uplifting, Country, Couple

  Seminar at Bard College, New York, February 02, 2000.

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• A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step and if that step is the right step, it becomes the last step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Lasts, Steps

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• Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy.

  Gershon Legman

  Boys, Men

  Gershon Legman (1982). “No laughing matter: an analysis of sexual humor”, Indiana Univ Pr

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• Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Beautiful, Alive

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• Edison failed ten thousand times before he perfected the modern electric lamp. The average man would have quit at the first failure. That's why there are so many average men and only one Edison.

  Pete Seeger

  Men, Average, Firsts

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• Every living soul has different talents, different desires, different faculties. Be yourself, for even if you deceive the entire world, you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

  Carl Jung

  Being Yourself, Soul, Desire

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• Pain is pain and sorrow is sorrow. It hurts. It limits. It impoverishes. It isolates. It restrains. It works devastation deep within the personality. It circumscribes in a thousand different ways. There is nothing good about it. But the gifts God can give with it are the richest the human spirit can know.

  Margaret Clarkson

  Hurt, Pain, Giving

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• God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

  Joseph Bayly

  Years, People, Tonight

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• A thousand approaches lie open to death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Approach

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• I wonder, when a writer's blocked and doesn't have any resources to pull himself out of it, why doesn't he jump in his car and drive around the U.S.A.? I went last winter for seven thousand miles and it was lovely. Inexpensive, too.

  Jim Harrison

  Winter, Car, Lovely

  Jim Harrison, Robert J. DeMott (2002). “Conversations with Jim Harrison”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Greatness, People, Expansion

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Two, Knowing

  Thomas Jefferson “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, Lulu.com

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• Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mother, Prayer, Blessing

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• I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.

  Dave Barry

  Real, School, Two

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• Just when exactly does the Millennium begin? Some say 1999, some say 2000, and some say 2001. You wait a thousand years for one, and three turn up at once.

  Rory Bremner

  Years, Waiting, Doe

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• Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Years, Civilized

  "The God-Seeker". Book by Sinclair Lewis. Chapter 33, 1949.

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• One of the most successful men I have known never carried a watch until he began to earn ten thousand dollars a year.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Successful, Men, Years

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Self, Achievement

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.578, Penguin

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• We have organizations, whether it is ISIS or Al Qaida, who do believe we should go back several thousand years. We should make women third-class citizens, that we should allow children to be sexually assaulted. They are a danger to modern society.

  Bernie Sanders

  Children, Believe, Isis

  "Obama: Paris attacks a 'sickening setback' in fight vs. ISIS". "The Five" with Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. November 16, 2015.

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• My drug of choice is beer. It's not only socially accepted, you can't even watch a football game without having it shoved in your face a thousand times.

  Kirk Windstein

  Football, Beer, Games

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• I'm responsible for a hundred thousand people across Australia as well and I want to keep them gainfully employed. I want to give them opportunity to grow, I want to give them opportunity to develop.

  Ian McLeod

  Opportunity, Australia, People

  "The Observer Effect" with Ellen Fanning, www.sbs.com.au. September 29, 2013.

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